Sarkozy Win Rests With Anti-Europe Voters in Towns Like Le Hamel
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The northern French village of Le Hamel sits amid farmland in the rolling hills of Picardy, its brick-and-timber houses clustered around a duck pond and a 16th-century church, far from France’s so-called urban ghettos.
About half the village’s 119 votes cast in the 10-candidate first round of France’s presidential election on April 22 went to Marine Le Pen of the National Front, the anti-immigrant party that tapped into the Europe-fatigue of parts of rural France.